#writ

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. ↗

— David Mamet

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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. ↗

— David Mamet

#jobs #our #writers

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. ↗

— Paul de Man

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I'm a writer first and a woman after. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#anything #back #better #far #i

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#like #lives #many #people #satisfaction

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#face #i #more #say #thing

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. ↗

— Philip Levine

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